Graphics characters Linux->SCO

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012, Ken Cole wrote:
>Bill,
>
>Do you mean you are chasing the sequence or the special filePro code
>that sets the character which from memory is GZ?

The TERMCAP code I have for TERM=linux is GZ=: which is the same
for xterm.  It works fine in an xterm, but not with an ssh
connection to a SCO 5.0.6a VMware virtual machine from the CentOS
5.x console.

>
>Ken
>
>On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
>> OK, I'm still looking for the code that defines the field ending
>> character on screens when using a Linux console to run FilePro.
>>
>> I have all the other graphics stuff working OK, but the fields
>> all end with a '?' instead of a little block.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>>On Thu, May 17, 2012, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>>>>On 5/17/2012 3:03 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>>>> Does anybody have a TERMCAP that will work on SCO 5.0.6a with the
>>>>> correct line-drawing characters for an ssh or telnet connection
>>>>> coming from a Linux console and TERM=linux?
>>>>>
>>>>> My situation is a Linux box running OpenServer in a VMware VM
>>>>> where the client wants to work at the console, not at a remote
>>>>> system where we could use an xterm, anzio from Windows, etc.
>>>>
>>>>Have you tried the obvious -- copying the "linux" termcap entry from the
>>>>Linux box to the SCO VM?  (I assume that that termcap entry works when
>>>>running filePro on the Linux box itself.)
>>>
>>>OK, I think I have figured it out.  There are a couple of things
>>>going on here.
>>>
>>>  1.  This version of FilePro isn't recognizing the TERMCAP or PFTERMCAP
>>>      environment variables so it requires editing the /fp/termcap file
>>>      directly (doesn't seem to be a problem as fptech isn't updating
>>>      frequently :-).
>>>
>>>  2.  The line drawing characters and codes on the fptech web site are
>>>      wrong.  I found this link that basically was what I had been doing:
>>>
>>>                 http://www.fptechforum.com/index.php?topic=171.0
>>>
>>>  3.  The most important factor is that a while back Red Hat went to UTF-8
>>>      encoding on the console which is what broke the line drawing
>>>      characters.  Adding a line to the user's .profile or to the 'pf'
>>>      startup script reverts back to the old behavior:
>>>
>>>      echo -e \\033%@
>>>
>>>      This is described on this page:
>>>
>>>                 http://documentation.basis.com/kb/kb01006.html
>>>
>>>I've only spent about 3 hours (unbillable) time at the client
>>>site messing with this.  Should I send an invoice to fptech?
>>>
>>>Bill
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